01.10.2024, InfoMigrants

'Migrants for sale': An investigation into the clandestine migrant smuggling economy on the Mediterranean route

First part of a Five-part series Has the EU's border measures inadvertently created a thriving market for smugglers in the Mediterranean? This exclusive InfoMigrants series, drawing on interviews with dozens of migrants who made the perilous journey across the Central Mediterranean, reveals a grim reality. Europe-bound migrants passing through Libya endure financial exploitation and fall victim to a complex network of human smugglers, armed criminal gangs, militia and law enforcement. read more

Language(s): Englisch / English
Region(s): Nordafrika, Afrika